Asomugha awes crowd

All-Pro corner stirs fans by intercepting pass early in practice

1:22 AM,
Aug. 6, 2011

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BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- A little before 9 a.m., cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha stepped in front of a pass that Vince Young had thrown across the middle toward Chad Hall in one of the Eagles' first full-squad drills.

Asomugha lurched over the shorter Hall and intercepted the football. The crowd, standing five deep behind the Lehigh University practice field fence and bunched in the bleachers, let out a roar. Michael Vick, a member of the enemy offense, offered a congratulatory hand slap.

And with that, the new-look Eagles began to truly take flight Friday morning at training camp, where Asomugha, the ...